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Keywords: The prole of helical utes has a great inuence on properties of cutting tools. This paper presents an
Grinding
automatic method of searching for a wheel position in ute grinding for a given shape of the helical ute
Cutting tool
and grinding wheel prole. The algorithm is based on the main loop and two subroutines. The rst
Flute prole
algorithm is dedicated to the simulation of the ute prole by splitting the grinding wheel into many thin
disks. The second algorithm represents the numerical evaluation of the reached prole that results from
previous grinding simulation. Finally, the experimental evaluation using particle swarm optimization is
presented and obtained results discussed.
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Fig. 2. Positioning parameters of the grinding wheel. Fig. 4. Evaluation of the ute prole.
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Table 1
Boundaries of search space for geometrical parameters.
3. Experimental verication
Fig. 6. Prole of the grinding wheel used for the experimental verication. Fig. 8. Modication of the evaluation algorithm with additional vector elds.
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4. Conclusion